‘New’ Histories of (Australian) Capitalism

Huf, Ben; Sluga, Glenda

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“…39 The older sandstone universities, one in each Australian state capital city, were established in the nineteenth century on principles similar to the Oxbridge elite Liberal Arts education. 40 However, they quickly incorporated professional instruction, expanding to include law and medicine. The 'Scottish model' has been prevalent, with nineteenth-and early twentieth-century tertiary education designed to prepare students for professional work.…”

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“…41 The Workers' Educational Association (WEA) was also established in the interwar period to complement university professional education by providing extension tutorials in discrete subjects for blue-collar workers. 42 Postwar mass expansion of higher education was designed along similar lines: to multiply the supply of skilled labour, particularly in professions such as engineering, accountancy, law, teaching, business, medicine and science. 43 Universities came to command greater space in professional work, and simultaneously a much greater proportion of Australia's workforce trained as professionals through tertiary education.…”

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“…Returning to Melbourne, Shaw lectured in economic history before a deepening career in the history discipline. 40 Garnet Vere 'Jerry' Portus was, similarly, depending on who you asked, a historian and an economist (and an industrial relations scholar and a theologist). Portus studied history and economics at Oxford between 1908 and ', 568.…”

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“…Economist Douglas Copland started his professional life through a joint appointment in history and economics at the University of Tasmania, and later held chairs in both commerce and economics at the University of Melbourne. 42 Copland emphasised the interdisciplinarity of economic history, arguing it was the 'halfway house' between the abstract and the concrete. 43 Copland's successor as professor of commerce, Gordon Leslie Wood, also contributed to Australian economic history with a social sciences perspective.…”

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Australian Economic History: Transformations of an Interdisciplinary Field

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2022

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This previously untold story of economic history in Australia exposes the centrality of economic thought and scholarship to Australian intellectual and political life. Deftly positioning economic history in an innovative institutional, place-based and person-focused narrative, Claire Wright entangles economics with the history of education to produce a tale of university interdisciplinarity, influence and impact. Written with vitality and bursting with both data and anecdote, this book makes an exceptional contribution to the intersecting fields of history, economics and higher education studies.' -Hannah Forsyth, author of A History of the Modern Australian University 'Few readers would expect to find a classical tragedy in the story of an academic field. Yet that is what Claire Wright shows us in this study of Economic History, as it has been practiced in Australia. She traces the field from legendary beginnings to triumphant growth to organizational collapse -and renaissance on other terms. Carefully researched and vigorously written, this book raises questions about disciplines and interdisciplinary fields, universities and markets, and social bases of intellectual work, that are relevant to all fields today.' -Raewyn Connell, author of The Good University 'Australia proved a pioneer in the study of economic history, nurturing a discipline with innovative data and understanding of material trends. Yet by the 1990s economic history departments closed as senior scholars retired and the field was subsumed by conventional economics. In this absorbing study, Dr Claire Wright challenges the conventional account. She is tough-minded about financial and institutional pressures on the field, but cautiously optimistic about the future. It is a mistake, she argues, to see institutional representation as the benchmark of influence. Instead, the interdisciplinary nature of economic history has encouraged new research and teaching across the humanities and social sciences. With close attention to individual scholars and their university xiii List of abbreviations

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“…Analogous conversations are underway in Australia. Since 2017, local scholars have re-interrogated capitalism as a historiographical problem (Huf and Sluga, 2019), urged cultural historians to ‘seek a new materialism’ (Forsyth and Loy-Wilson, 2017) and reclaimed economic history as a rich domain of interdisciplinary inquiry (Ville and Wright, 2017).…”

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Capitalism in Australia: New histories for a reimagined future

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Capitalism is back. Three decades ago, when all alternatives to liberal democracy and free markets appeared discredited, talk of capitalism seemed passé. Now, after a decade of political and economic turmoil, capitalism and its temporal critique of progress and decline again seems an indispensable category to understanding a world in flux. Among the social sciences, historians have led both the embrace and critique of this ‘re-emergent’ concept. This roundtable discussion between leading and emerging Australian scholars working across histories of economy, work, policy, geography and political economy, extends this agenda. Representing the outcome of a workshop convened at La Trobe University in November 2018 and responding to questions posed by conveners Huf and Rees, five participants debate the nature, utility and future of the new constellation of ‘economic’ historical scholarship. While conducted well before the outbreak of COVID-19, the ensuring discussion nevertheless speaks saliently to the crises of our times.

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‘New’ Histories of (Australian) Capitalism

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